Word: manchukuo
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...bombed the Lunghai Railway, which the Japanese had tried to break almost as many times as the line has ties; and of course about how the American friends had beaten part of the Japanese Fleet. They spat when they read that the traitor Wang Ching-wei had gone to Manchukuo, where the Japanese were said to be concentrating troops against the Russians...
...highway for the Nazi war machine. Maxim Litvinoff could guess at the pattern of the Nazi drive: this time, probably, Hitler would smash south, toward the oil of the Caucasus, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean. At the same moment the Japanese, with perhaps 1,000,000 men in Manchukuo, their railroads fanned out to the Siberian border, might smash at Russia's Asian end. This was Russia's crucial hour...
...scores of airfields near Vladivostok (only 685 miles from Tokyo) hundreds of Soviet airplanes were tuned for action. Soon the weather would permit re-inforocements (if Soviet-Japanese neutrality lapsed into war) to be flown from the U.S. via Alaska. Ready to face the big Jap army in Manchukuo was a Red army (partially mechanized...
...seven missionary districts in South China, Korea, Manchukuo and Japan, Maryknollers are working, converting 7,500 adults a year. Maryknoll is still the largest U.S. Catholic missionary group, but others have followed its lead; there are now 2,500 American Catholic missionaries stationed overseas, a majority of them in the Orient...
...Maryknollers are in good health"-the 58 in Manchukuo...